Word: cusps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed law was the result of more than two years of work by Cambridge United for Smoking Protection (CUSP)--a coalition of city agencies and residents...
...plans to speak today," said Kate Dempsey, CUSP coordinator and tobacco-control manager for the city's Department of Human Services...
...bill, drafted by Cambridge United for Smoking Prevention (CUSP), proposes to limit smoking areas in restaurants to 30 percent of the seats in its first year, 15 percent in the second and then possibly prohibit smoking entirely in its third year. By doing so, Cambridge would finally be saying that the right not to inhale smoke supercedes the right to smoke...
...committee discussed the addition of "cusp" grades for numerical values with no corresponding letter grades. The numerical value 13, for example, would be assigned a new grade in between a B+ and an A-. A B+ is worth 12 points on Harvard's 15-points scale, while an A-is worth...
...Dream is surprisingly compelling. Cohen's greatest asset is his willingness to let his subjects tell their own stories. He rejects the seductive dream of capturing the generation's collective consciousness. But it remains a tempting prospect. After all, who could possibly deny that universal generational ethos on the cusp of articulation in "Saturday Night Fever,' when he tells his sadly doomed dancing partner, "I'd dance wit' you, but you ain't, my dream girl or nothin...